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Resident Microbiome Disruption with Antibiotics Enhances Virulence of a Colonizing Pathogen

There is growing evidence that symbiotic microbes play key roles in host defense, but less is known about how symbiotic microbes mediate pathogen-induced damage to hosts. Here, we use a natural wildlife disease system, house finches and the conjunctival bacterial pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum (M...

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Autores principales: Thomason, Courtney A., Mullen, Nathan, Belden, Lisa K., May, Meghan, Hawley, Dana M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29170421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16393-3